The last half year or so went ok, but not being able to stop automatic upgrades is ridiculous. In general I like opinionated software, but sometimes it goes to far.
If you try to talk about how Linux distributions don’t like it, they’ll just say, “but Snap is available on all the distributions” or some crap cop-out.
I had a long forum thread about all the issues people are complaining about half a decade ago. They wouldn’t budge, and still won’t budge.
Snaps reduce reduce their maintenance burdens, and they have the stats themselves for how popular they are. They are by and far more used than flatpaks from what I remember from the video by Martin Wimpress.
Oh and they have third party buy-in from software vendors like Mozilla, Microsoft, VLC, JetBrains, Spotify, slack etc...
Why would they budge?
Vendor interest they have, community interest they lack. And if it continues, lack of community interest will result in a lack of vendor interest.
You see the map at the bottom with a list of OSes?
They have the interest, commercial and from the populace. Vendors have already integrated it into their pipelines.
What they don't have is the vocal minority. Frankly I don't get why people care so much, if you don't like it switch to something else. No need to whine about it online. They aren't preventing you from using flatpak.
> Frankly I don't get why people care so much, if you don't like it switch to something else. No need to whine about it online. They aren't preventing you from using flatpak.
Then, in that case, by that logic, there’s no reason for you to whine about my whining.
A dev at Canonical can absolutely see how many install counts are there and if the venture is worth it.
>no explanation on what the lengths actually mean.
>Then, in that case, by that logic, there’s no reason for you to whine about my whining.
They don't care what you say, they don't care about the whining here. You aren't paying to support it either.
Feel free to switch to another packaging solution, or even a new OS. It won't affect Canonical's bottom line.